AccountantsWorld
This site has become one of the most widely used portals for accountants and offers a vast array of free resources, tools and services.

Deloitte: International Tax and Business Guides
Deloitte's International Tax and Business Guides help potential investors understand the investment climate, operating conditions, and tax system of most major trading jurisdictions. The Guides are supplemented by the Country Highlights series, which provide a quick overview of the tax landscape of more than 120 jurisdictions.

Intro to Accounting - Simple
This site provides free online accounting lessons that teach introduction to accounting. These accounting tutorials explain financial accounting principles in simple accounting terms. The website also has accounting exercises with solutions and an accounting glossary.

The Tax Foundation
The mission of the Tax Foundation is to educate taxpayers about sound tax policy and the size of the tax burden borne by Americans at all levels of government.

Tax Statistics
Here you will find a wide range of tables, articles, and data that describe and measure elements of the U.S. tax system.

African Studies Internet Resources
African Studies Internet Resources is an on-going compilation of electronic bibliographic resources and research materials on Africa available on the global Internet, created under the purview of the African Studies Department of Columbia University Libraries. Electronic resources from Africa are organized by region and country. All materials are arranged to encourage an awareness of authorship, type of information, and subject. The scope of the collection is research-oriented, but it also provides access to other web sites with different or broader missions. Beginning in early 1999, the site became the "official" African Studies web site for the World Wide Web Virtual Library.

African American Women Writers of the 19th Century
This site makes available several dozen works covering 19th century African American women's literature. It provides a collection of diverse literature (essays, fiction, journals, poetry, autobiographical narratives, etc.)

Nuer Field Notes
The Web site is both a collection of primary sources, and a site enabling students to gain understanding of an African people, missionary activities in Africa, and African language issues.

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is a national research library devoted to collecting, preserving and providing access to resources documenting the history and the experiences of peoples of African descent throughout the world.

Subject Guide For African-American Resources
This subject guide is to provide access to the electronic resources that focus on material related to African-American Studies. It also provides selective access to various Internet resources that are particularly valuable for those doing academic research in this subject area. Several electronic resources are also available that contain information useful to African-American Studies research.

The American Museum of Photography
Taken from the works of photo-historian William B. Becker, this site contains works from 1939 to WWI. The site also includes a "Research Center" for researchers.

Archives of American Art
Spanning the centuries since the founding of America to the present day, this collection comprises the largest source (thirteen million documents, including personal papers of artist) in the world of primary source documentation on the visual arts in American. The collection also includes approximately three thousand interviews done for AAA's Oral History Program, and nearly one thousand photographs in the AAA's Photographs of Artists Collections.

The Art of Ancient Greek Theater
This exhibition explores the many ways Greek drama was interpreted by ancient Greek artists, whose works are frequently the only surviving evidence of the performing arts in antiquity. A wide variety of objects — including sculptures, painted vases, and a rare fragmentary papyrus — brings to life the rich history of ancient Greek theater.

Artlex Art Dictionary
You will find definitions for more than 3,300 terms in discussing visual culture, along with thousands of supporting images, pronunciations, notes, great quotations and cross-references.

ArtsConnectEd
Explore the combined collections of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and the Walker Art Center through hundreds of new features in ArtsConnectEd. Search over 100,000 resources in the Art Finder, including works of art, texts, audio, video, and interactive resources. Save and customize items in the redesigned Art Collector. Comment, tag and rate everything!

Cellblock Visions
Cellblock Visions is a lively collection of inmate artwork, created behind bars, from county jail to death row – the alternative art world flourishing today in American prisons. Men and women inmates, having no previous training, turn to art for a sense of self-worth, an opportunity to vent rage, a way to find peace. They transcend the cramped space, limited light, and narrow vistas of their prison studios.

Imagebase
Virginia Tech University's Imagebase holds thousands of images that can be browsed by keyword or subject.

International Dada Archive
The International Dada Archive is a scholarly resource for the study of the historic Dada movement. The Archive has compiled a comprehensive collection of textual documentation relating to Dada. Its partner institution, the Fine Arts Dada Archive, emphasizes the visual documentation of Dada. The collection of the International Dada Archive is scattered throughout the University of Iowa Libraries; most of its holdings are in either the Main Library or the Art Library. The collection includes books, articles, microfilmed manuscript collections, video recordings, sound recordings, and a few computer files. The primary access to the entire collection is through a card catalog indexing an estimated 47,000 titles, and an online catalog containing approximately 42,000 titles.

International Foundation for Art Research
The International Foundation for Art Research (IFAR) is a not-for-profit educational and research organization dedicated to integrity in the visual arts. IFAR offers impartial and authoritative information on authenticity, ownership, theft, and other artistic, legal, and ethical issues concerning art objects. IFAR serves as a bridge between the public, and the scholarly and commercial art communities.

Jerry Beck's Cartoon Research
The central feature of this site is Jerry Beck’s blogs, Cartoon Brew, which offers a steady stream of well-informed news, Thoughtful reviews, trivia, comments, and lots of cartoon clips. Beck takes a comprehensive view of animation, including adult-themed materials.

MoMa (Museum of Modern Art)
This is a valuable resource for introductory research. It provides glimpses of recent exhibitions, information about the departments of the museum and, with numerous links, is a good way to make connections from the museum world of exhibitions to the publishing world of books. There is also a section profiling modern artists, frequently with full-text essays from recent exhibitions.

National Gallery of Art – The Collection
The National Gallery of Art houses one of the finest collections in the world illustrating major achievements in painting, sculpture, and graphic arts from the Middle Ages to the present.

Performing Arts Encyclopedia
This is a guide to the performing arts collections and exhibitions at the Library of Congress. Each collection, exhibition or resource includes a descriptive summary and, if available, a link to the online resource.

Photo Archive
The Getty Research Institute's Photo Archive contains approximately two million photographs. Primarily black and white, that document works of art and architecture. Approximately half of the photographic holdings are represented in the Photo Archive.

Web Gallery of Art
The Web Gallery of Art is a virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods, currently containing over 11,000 reproductions. Commentaries on pictures and biographies of artists are available.

WebMuseum, Paris
This offers resources covering the following themes: Gothic Painting, The Italian Renaissance, The Northern Renaissance, Baroque, Revolution and Restoration, Impressionism, the 20th Century and Japanese Art and Architecture. There are also included an artist index and a glossary.

Women Artists of the American West
An Internet Course and Interdisciplinary Resource featuring the vital contributions that women have made to the art and history of the American West.

American College of Rheumatology
The American College of Rheumatology's mission is advancing rheumatology. The organization represents over 8,500 rheumatologists and rheumatology health professionals around the world. The ACR offers its members the support they need to ensure that they are able to continue their innovative work by providing programs of education, research, advocacy, and practice support.

American College of Sports Medicine
The American College of Sports Medicine promotes and integrates scientific research, education, and practical applications of sports medicine and exercise science to maintain and enhance physical performance, fitness, health, and quality of life.

American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine
The American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine (ACRM) is dedicated to serving the needs of people with disabling conditions by providing research that: promotes health, independence, productivity, and quality of life. Its mission is to enhance the lives of people living with disabilities through a multidisciplinary approach to rehabilitation. As leaders in the physical medicine and rehabilitation field, we promote innovative research, new technologies, and sharing information, encourages evidence-based practices in clinical settings, educates providers to deliver best practices, and ensures future research projects are publicly funded.

American Medical Athletic Association (AMAA)
he American Medical Athletic Association (AMAA), formerly the American Medical Joggers Association and a professional division of the American Running Association, is comprised of doctors and allied healthcare professionals who are committed to enhancing the well-being of patients through the promotion of running and exercise.

American Osteopathic Academy of Sports Medicine (AOASM)
The American Osteopathic Academy of Sports Medicine (AOASM) is a membership organization dedicated to the art and science of sports medicine, emphasizing osteopathic principles in the practice of comprehensive health care.

American Society of Hand Therapists
The American Society of Hand Therapists (ASHT) is a professional organization comprising licensed occupational and physical therapists who specialize in the treatment and rehabilitation of the upper extremity.

Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System
BRFSS is the nation's premier system of health-related telephone surveys that collect state data about U.S. residents regarding their health-related risk behaviors, chronic health conditions, and use of preventive services. BRFSS collects data in all 50 states as well as the District of Columbia and three U.S. territories. BRFSS completes more than 400,000 adult interviews each year, making it the largest continuously conducted health survey system in the world.

Board of Certification
The Board of Certification, Inc. (BOC) was incorporated in 1989 to provide a certification program for entry-level Athletic Trainers (ATs). The BOC establishes and regularly reviews both the standards for the practice of athletic training and the continuing education requirements for BOC Certified ATs. The BOC has the only accredited certification program for ATs in the US.

The Eastern Athletic Trainers' Association
The Eastern Athletic Trainers' Association was first formed in January 1949. It seeks the advancement, encouragement, and improvement of the athletic training profession in all of its aspects. The Association will encourage improved working relationships among all persons interested in, and working with, the problems that are inherent in the care for the health and well-being of the physically active individual. The Association shall encourage the continued professional development of each of its members. The Association shall also serve the common interest of its members by providing a means of free exchange of ideas within the profession.

The eSkeletons Project
The eSkeletons Project website is devoted to the study of humans and primate comparative anatomy. It offers a unique set of digitized versions of skeletons in 2-D and 3-D in full color, animation, and much supplemental information. The user can navigate through the various regions of the skeleton and view orientations of each element along with muscle and joint information.

Free Medical Journals
This site provides links to approximately 1,000 medical journals that are on the Internet in full text for free.

LUMEN: Structure of the Human Body
The publicly accessible part of this site provides significant resources for human anatomy students to review structural nomenclature and relationships using multimedia visual aids. The Tutorial includes "stand-alone lessons": cross-sectional anatomy, a master site muscle list, and practice exams, study aids, etc.

MEDLINEplus Health Information
The National Library of Medicine provides this site for the general health consumer. They can find information on conditions, diseases, drugs, and wellness. Also provides a medical dictionary. You can also go directly from this site to ClinicalTrials.gov, the medical research program from the National Institute of Health.

Muscle and Physiology
This website serves as an introduction to muscle physiology. The site is maintained by the Muscle Physiology Lab at the University of California San Diego.

National Academy of Kinesiology
Founded in 1926, the American Academy of Kinesiology and Physical Education (AAKPE), now National Academy of Kinesiology, shall be to encourage and promote the study and educational applications of the art and science of human movement and physical activity.

National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research (NCMRR)
Through basic, translational, and clinical research, the NCMRR aims to foster development of scientific knowledge needed to enhance the health, productivity, independence, and quality-of-life of people with physical disabilities. The NCMRR supports research on the following topics: pathophysiology and management of chronically injured nervous and musculoskeletal systems (including stroke, traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, and orthopedic conditions); repair and recovery of motor and cognitive function; functional plasticity, adaptation, and windows of opportunity for rehabilitative interventions; rehabilitative strategies involving pharmaceutical and neuroengineering approaches, exercise, motor training, and behavioral modifications; pediatric critical care and rehabilitation; secondary conditions associated with chronic disabilities; improved diagnosis, assessment, and outcome measures; and development of orthotics, prosthetics, and other assistive technologies and devices.

National Guideline Clearinghouse
The NGC mission is to provide physicians and other health professionals, health care providers, health plans, integrated delivery systems, purchasers, and others an accessible mechanism for obtaining objective, detailed information on clinical practice guidelines and to further their dissemination, implementation, and use.

National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) is a program of studies designed to assess the health and nutritional status of adults and children in the United States. The survey is unique in that it combines interviews and physical examinations.

Smoking & Health Resource Library
This database contains abstracts of articles from medical and professional journals; books and book chapters; dissertations; reports; conference proceedings and conference papers; government documents from federal, state, local, and foreign entities; fact sheets and policy documents from U.S. and international nonprofit organizations; and other documents. New Citations added to the database in thelast eight weeks are also available. New Citations include recently published tobacco-related articles from peer-reviewed journals of behavioral, scientific, and medical literature.

Spine-Health
The site's goal is to provide comprehensive, highly informative and useful esources for understanding, preventing, and seeking appropriate treatment for back and neck pain and related conditions. This site has been developed by a multi-specialty group of medical professionals. You will find Doctor Reviewed articles, Back pain forums, a Blog, and information on pain topics.

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), was established by an act of Congress in 1992 under Public Law 102-321. SAMHSA is achieving that vision through a mission that is both action-oriented and measurable: to build resilience and facilitate recovery for people with or at risk for substance-abuse and mental illness. In collaboration with the States, national and local community-based and faith-based organizations, and public and private sector providers, SANHSA is working to ensure that people with or at risk for a mental or addictive disorder have the opportunity for a fulfilling life that includes a job, a home, and meaningful relationships with family and friends.

WinkingSkull.com
WinkingSkull.com is designed to let you study and test yourself on human anatomy. You can gauge your proficiency against a handy timer and see your test results instantly.

World Federation of Athletic Training &Therapy
The World Federation of Athletic Training is a coalition comprised of national organizations and health care professionals in the fields of sport, exercise, injury/illness prevention and treatment. The Federation will promote the highest quality of health care and functional activity through the collaborative efforts of its members.

African-American Women Writers of the 19th Century
This site makes available several dozen works covering 19th century African American women's literature. It provides a collection of diverse literature (essays, fiction, journals, poetry, autobiographical narratives, etc.)

Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
The Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online provides information on people who played an important role in the formation of what is now Canada. This first phase presents persons who died between the years 1000 and 1930 or whose last known date of activity falls within these years.

American Writers II
Created by C-SPAN this site explores the influence of 45 US authors from 1600 to 1975 and their influence on life, literature and the shaping of the US as a nation.

AccountantsWorld
This site has become one of the most widely used portals for accountants and offers a vast array of free resources, tools and services.

AllBusiness AllBusiness is the world's largest online resource for small businesses, providing essential tools and resources to start, grow, and manage your business. AllBusiness brings you real-world expertise and practical advice from some of the best minds in small business.

AnnualReports.com
This service allows users to review an annual report in an easy and convenient manner. Boasting the most complete and up-to-date listings of annual reports in their actual format in one single location.

The Annual Reports Service
The Annual Reports Service is a FREE Service provided by PrecisionIR for the readers of The Wall Street Journal Online. The service provides you with quick access to annual reports, quarterly earnings, and other information on select companies.

Bloomberg.com
In 1981 Bloomberg started out with one core belief: that bringing transparency to capital markets through access to information could increase capital flows, produce economic growth and jobs, and significantly reduce the cost of doing business. Today’s Bloomberg builds on that foundation - by connecting decision makers in business, finance and government to a broad and dynamic network of information, news, people and ideas that enables faster, more effective decisions.

Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
The world's leading independent resource on companies and their records on human rights. Updated hourly, this multilingual site covers the social and environmental impacts of over 5,000 companies operating in over 180 countries.

Business Daily
The latest Business news from WN.com Network, keeping you up to date on Banking, Investment, Stock, Commodities, Currencies and more. The one stop resource for your business and financial news.

BusinessDictionary.com
BusinessDictionary.com features over 20,000 terms and over 115,000 links between related terms providing a clear and concise description of any and all business terms.

Business.com
This directory purpose is to help business users find what they need on the Web to do a better job. In addition to a directory and search engine, this site provides features such as detailed information about public, private and international companies. Its "Industry Center" provides in-depth and updated profiles on 58 industries and aggregated news from hundreds of sources, including the Financial Times, Industry Standard, Dow Jones, and Reuters.

BusinessUSA
BusinessUSA is the U.S. Government's official website for small businesses. Business.gov provides access to Federal, state, and local information that helps business owners successfully start and operate while staying compliant with laws and regulations.

Business Reference Services Business Reference Services is the starting point for conducting research at the Library of Congress in the subject areas of business and economics. Here, reference specialists in specific subject areas of business assist patrons in formulating search strategies and gaining access to the information and materials contained in the Library's rich collections of business and economics materials.

Catherwood Digital Collections
The Martin P. Catherwood Library, School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University, is the most comprehensive resource of its type in North America. Its collection of 232,000 books, journals, pamphlets and related materials — now complemented by extensive access to electronic resources from around the world — supports education and research in nearly every aspect of the workplace. The Library also houses the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives.

Center for Global Development
CGD is an independent, not-for-profit think tank that works to reduce global poverty and inequality by encouraging policy change in the U.S. and other rich countries through rigorous research and active engagement with the policy community.

CEOExpress
CEOExpress claims to provide the user with most useful 20 percent of the most important information you will need to do business.

Council of Economic Advisers
The Council of Economic Advisers, an agency within the Executive Office of the President, is charged with offering the President objective economic advice on the formulation of both domestic and international economic policy. The Council bases its recommendations and analysis on economic research and empirical evidence, using the best data available to support the President in setting our nation's economic policy.

Country Studies Series
From the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress, the Country Studies Series presents a description and analysis of the historical, social, political, and economic institutions and systems of countries worldwide.

C-Span.Org: Economic Stimulus
Economic Stimulus is a useful source of information for doing research on the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), commonly referred to as the Stimulus Bill. The site is divided into two parts. The first is a listing of C-Span broadcasts related to the stimulus Bill. The second part features links to governmental and nongovernmental entities that analyze and report on aspects of the stimulus.

Deloitte: International Tax and Business Guides
Deloitte's International Tax and Business Guides help potential investors understand the investment climate, operating conditions, andtax system of most major trading jurisdictions. The Guides are supplemented by the Country Highlights series, which provide a quick overview of the tax landscape of more than 120 jurisdictions.

Dodd-Frank News Center
The Dodd-Frank News Center is intended to provide the legal community and others with news and links to vital information on the current financial crisis. Maintained by a staff of attorney-editors, this site helps visitors track ongoing developments in this wide-ranging crisis and the multiple responses from lawmakers and regulatory agencies.

Economic Conditions for Latin America and the Caribbean
ECLAC, which is headquartered in Santiago, Chile, is one of the five regional commissions of the United Nations. It was founded for the purposes of contributing to the economic development of Latin America, coordinating actions directed towards this end, and reinforcing economic relationships among the countries and with the other nations of the world. The promotion of the region’s social development was later included among its primary objectives.

Economic Indicators.gov
Economic Indicators.gov is brought to you by the Economics and Statistics Administration at the U.S. Department of Commerce. Our mission is to provide timely access to the daily releases of key economic indicators from the Bureau of Economic Analysis and the U.s. Census Bureau.

Economic Statistics Briefing Room
The purpose of this service is to provide easy access to current Federal economic indicators. It provides links to information produced by a number of Federal agencies.

E.H. Net Encyclopedia
E.H. Net Encyclopedia contains approximately 70 current alphabetically arranged entries. It is a free source that provides selective coverage of topics in economics and business history. Articles are often illustrated with maps, tablets, charts, and time lines. Articles also list references and are enhanced by topical headings. Search by keyword.

The Entrepreneur's Reference Guide to Small Business InformationThe Entrepreneur's Reference Guide to Small Business Information was compiled by business reference specialists at the Library of Congress to help beginners (and established business owners who keep meeting new problems) find sources that can guide them to the right questions and the best answers.

Ethics Resource Center ERC has been in the organizational ethics business for a long time. First and foremost, ERC is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization, dedicated to independent research that advances high ethical standards and practices in public and private institutions.With the global recession, they also are focusing more closely now on ethics and compliance aspects of the federal government's response.

Export.gov
Export.gov brings together resources from across the U.S. Government to assist American businesses in planning their international sales strategies and succeed in today’s global marketplace.

FDIC: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) is an independent agency created by the Congress to maintain stability and public confidence in the nation's financial system by: insuring deposits, examining and supervising financial institutions for safety and soundness and consumer protection, and managing receiverships.

Financial Resources on the Web
This site offers a detailed directory which covers several areas of finance in great detail. The site is organized into several major categories; general finance and the economy; financial markets; corporate finance, fund and investment research; etc.

FINWEB
FINWEB is a financial economics web site managed by James R. Garven. The objective of FINWEB is to list internet resources providing substantive information concerning economics and finance-related subjects.

Foreign Labor Trends (FLT) Reports Series
Produced by the Bureau of International Labor Affairs (ILAB), these reports provide summaries of recent labor developments, practices and institutions in key foreign countries. These reports also include: workers' rights issues associated with collective bargaining, child labor, trafficking in persons, occupational safety and health, and discrimination in employment.

Global Distribution of Poverty
The Global Poverty Mapping Project seeks to enhance current understanding of the global distribution of poverty and the geographic and biophysical conditions of where the poor live. Additionally, the project aims to assist policy makers, development agencies, and the poor themselves in designing interventions to reduce poverty.

GlobalEDGE
Created by the International Business Center at Michigan State University, this knowledge web portal brings together resources to assist international business professionals in planning their international sales strategies and succeed in today’s global marketplace.

International Monetary Fund
The International Monetary Fund site contains information about the organization, international monetary cooperation, and member countries. The home page contains current news, and the left tool bar provides links to the main topics.

Intro to Accounting - Simple
This site provides free online accounting lessons that teach introduction to accounting. These accounting tutorials explain financial accounting principles in simple accounting terms. The website also has accounting exercises with solutions and an accounting glossary.

LabordocLabordoc, the ILO Library's database, contains references and full text access to the world's literature on the world of work. It covers all aspects of work and sustainable livelihoods and the work-related aspects of economic and social development, human rights and technological change. Much of the collection focuses on developing and transition countries, and a special effort is made to acquire material published in developing countries. There is a strong focus on empirical literature, although some material on labor economics, gender economics and welfare economics is included. Labordoc covers all of the publications by the ILO, whether published in Geneva or in the field, since 1919 and in all languages - including non-Roman scripts.

LABORSTA Internet
View and download data and metadata for over 200 countries from LABORSTA, an International labour Office database on labour statistics operated by the ILO Department of Statistics.

MarketResearch.com
MarketResearch.com is the world’s largest and continuously updated collection of market research. As a single source for market intelligence, this website offers more than 110,000 market research reports from over 550 leading global publishers.

MetroTrends MetroTrends aim is to fuel evidence-based debate about the nationwide impacts of: recession and recovery, critical differences among metropolitan regions, persistent or emerging disparities among population groups. Here you'll find the latest information on social and economic trends in urban America and get seasoned perspectives on what they mean for workers, families, businesses, and neighborhoods.

NationMaster.com This source is especially useful for generating statistics and maps for graphical comparisons of nations around the globe. NationMaster is a central data center compiled with information sourced from the OECD, UN, and the CIA World Factbook.

North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) This website offers the official 2007 US NAICS Manual, North American Industry Classification systems—United States, 2007which includes definitions for each industry, tables showing correspondence between 2007 NAICS and 2002 NAICS for codes that have changed, and a comprehensive index—features also available on this website.

NYCdata Created and maintained by the Weissman Center for International Business, Baruch College, this site is a rich and expansive collection of statistics. You can find statistics by either browsing or searching. The 17 browsable chapters cover categories from demographics to financials to sports.

SEC Filings & Forms (EDGAR)
All companies, foreign and domestic are required to file registration statements, periodic reports, and other forms electronically through EDGAR. Anyone can access and download this information for free. Here you’ll find links to a complete list of filings available through EDGAR and instructions for searching the EDGAR database.

The Tax Foundation
The mission of the Tax Foundation is to educate taxpayers about sound tax policy and the size of the tax burden borne by Americans at all levels of government.

Tax Statistics
Here you will find a wide range of tables, articles, and data that describe and measure elements of the U.S. tax system.

Trade Compliance Center - TCC
Produced by the TCC, this site provides access to economic and commercial to assist U.S. exporters evaluate and understand opportunities created by past trade agreements the U.S. has negotiated. WTO Trade Policy Review Summaries are also included on this site.

TranStats
This site offers data, statistics and research from the Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA) that correlates with the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT).

U.S.Credit Conditions – Federal Reserve Bank of New York The Federal Reserve considers the record rate of mortgage delinquencies, foreclosures and their impacts on communities an urgent problem. The New York Fed uses its expertise and knowledge to provide detailed data on U.S. credit conditions to the public to establish a body of factual data for use in forming policy decisions and developing mortgage foreclosure mitigation efforts.

U.S. Department of the Treasury
This is the Web site for the U.S. Department of Treasury. The six horizontal menu items directly mirror the Treasury’s primary areas of focus; Coins & Currency, Economy, Fighting Illicit Finance, Financial markets, International, and Taxes.

U.S. Small Business Administration
You will find a wealth of information at this site including: SBA forms, publications, laws, regulations, reports, online workshops, statistics, frequently asked questions, shareware programs, and loan information for starting, financing, and expanding a business.

Wachowicz’s Web World: Web Sites for Discerning Finance Students
The following financial management web sites are grouped to correspond with the major topic headings in Fundamentals of Financial Management, 13th ed., Pearson Education Limited (2009) by James Van Horne and John Wachowicz. The site provides comprehensive business reference and research gateway.

The Wall Street Journal: Market Data Center
This free, advertising supported service of WSJ focuses on the recent transaction activity and performance of leading financial markets and national exchanges from around the world engaged in trading stocks, bonds, mutual funds, exchange traded funds, options, commodities, credit instruments, currency exchange, etc.

The World Bank Open Data
This site presents publicly accessible data related to the Bank’s financials available in a social, interactive, visually compelling, and machine-readable format. World Bank Finances features datasets that cover portions of the Bank’s investments, the assets it manages on behalf of global funds, and the Bank’s own financial statements. The current list of datasets is expected to grow rapidly, as the Bank monitors usage patterns and feedback to determine the specific datasets to be published next. In addition to accessing pre-packaged numbers and charts, visitors to World Bank Finances can draw on raw, unvarnished data to generate their own visuals to save, download, or embed into their own reports or websites or share with their social networks.

America's Career InfoNet
America's Career InfoNet provides information on labor market trends, salary information by job and geographic location, required skills, state demographics and career tools.

Jobhunters Bible
Created as an online supplement to the What Color Is Your Parachute? Series Jobhunters Bible consists of articles critiquing online career links to useful web pages. Topics include finding networking opportunities, posting your resume online, and using search engines to locate prospects and job listings.

JobStar Jobstar provides traditional advice on building your resume and searching companies. It provides salary surveys and career information. It also provides a useful section on hidden jobs and Ask Electra, an e-mail advice librarian. There are links to articles from CareerJournal.com

Occupational Outlook Handbook
The Occupational Outlook Handbook is a nationally recognized source of information. The Handbook describes what workers do on the job,working conditions, the training and education needed, earnings, and expected job prospects in a wide range of occupations.

O*NET OnlineThe O*NET program is the nation's primary source of occupational information. Central to the project is the O*NET database, containing information on hundreds of standardized and occupation-specific descriptors. The database is continually updated by surveying a broad range of workers from each occupation. Information from this freely available database forms the heart of O*NET OnLine, the interactive application for exploring and searching occupations. The database also provides the basis for our Career Exploration Tools, a set of valuable assessment instruments for workers and students looking to find or change careers.

Quintessential CareersQuintessential Careers is a leader in expert career, college, and job-search advice. Now in their 13th year of operations, and it has more than 4,000 pages of free content to empower your success in college, career, and life. How do you find a new career or job? How do you choose a college or college major?

The Riley Guide: Employment Opportunities and Job Resources in the Internet The Riley Guide is a directory of employment and career information sources and services on the Internet. It is primarily intended to provide instruction for job seekers on how to use the Internet to their best advantage, but recruiters and other career service industry professional will find information here to help them also.

Wetfeet.com
Wetfeet serves as an online recruitment center for employers. It also functions as an informative, organized starting point for those considering new or first careers.

ArXiv
ArXiv is an e-print service in the fields of physics, mathematics, non-linear science, computer science, quantitative biology and statistics.

GameDev.net
GameDev.net has emerged as the leading online community for game developers of all levels, from the green beginner to the seasoned industry veteran. Over 850,000 developers from around the world return here regularly to take advantage of frequently updated developer news, thousands of articles and other resources.

Hacks/Hackers Survival Glossary
Hacks/Hackers has assembled a highly popular Survival Glossary for digital journalists. This Hacks/Hackers Survival Glossary as an explanation of terms that help you understand the information landscape.

The History of Computing
This WWW page is the initiation of a collection of materials related to the history of computing as collected and written by J. A. N. Lee, until 1995 Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, past chair of the IEEE Computer Society History of Computing Committee and current chair of the IFIP Working Group 9.7 (History of Computing).

Universal Usability: A Universal Design Approach to Web Usability
The Universal Usability site houses an unabridged, online version of Access by Design: A Guide to Universal Usability for Web Designers, by Sarah Horton, published in 2005 by New Riders Press. You’ll find the complete text and illustrations from the printed book here. The online version also offers links to texts and tutorials that support and expand on the concepts covered in the book.

Web Design References
This site serves as an educational resource to instruction in standards-based web design and development. It is a learning source for those engaged in projects that require construction of web sites. It also serves as an educational reference for advanced web designers who want to learn standards-based techniques, theory and best practices or for those who want to refresh their knowledge.

Bureau of Justice Statistics
This site provides criminal justice statistics. The opening page provides a short list of subjects: from Crimes and Victims to Crime& Justice Data from Other sources. From these general categories the information is developed more fully and specifically.

Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice
This nonprofit nonpartisan organization and site promote a balanced and humane criminal justice system through the provision of direct services, technical assistance, and policy analysis.

International Criminal Court
The International Criminal Court (ICC), governed by the Rome Statute, is the first permanent, treaty based, international criminal court established to help end impunity for the perpetrators of the most serious crimes of concern to the international community. This site is produced by the ICC and provides information on the ICC and situations and cases about open cases.

National Criminal Justice Reference Service
This site provides information for those doing research in criminal justice and law enforcement. Ten major topical areas are covered: Corrections, Courts, Crime Prevention, Criminal Justice Statistics, Drugs & Crime, International, Juvenile Justice, Law Enforcement, Research & Evaluation, and Victims. Each topic contains either hyperlinks to other Web sites or full-text documents or both.

National Institute of Corrections
The National Institute of Corrections (NIC) is an agency within the U.S. Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Prisons. The Institute is headed by a Director appointed by the U.S. Attorney General. A 16-member Advisory Board, also appointed by the Attorney General, was established by the enabling legislation (Public Law 93-415) to provide policy direction to the Institute. This agency provides training, technical assistance, information services, and policy/program development assistance to federal, state, and local corrections agencies.

New York Division of Criminal Justice Services Home Page
The Division of Criminal Justice Services is a multi-function criminal justice support agency with a variety of responsibilities, including collection and analysis of statewide crime data; operation of the DNA databank and criminal fingerprint files; administration of federal and state criminal justice funds; support of criminal justice-related agencies across the state; and administration of the state’s Sex Offender Registry that allows anyone to research the status of an offender.

Office for Victims of Crime
The mission of OVC is to enhance the Nation's capacity to assist crime victims and to provide leadership in changing attitudes, policies, and practices to promote justice and healing for all victims of crime.

Sourcebook of Criminal Justice StatisticsThe Sourcebook (2003, 31st ed.) brings together data from more than 100 sources about all aspects of criminal justice in the United States. This data has been continually compiled since 1973 by the Utilization of Criminal Justice Statistics Project.

UPMC Center for Health Security The Center for Health Security is an independent, nonprofit organization of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC). Their mission is to strengthen national security by reducing the risks posed by biological attacks, epidemics, and other destabilizing events, and to improve the nation’s resilience in the face of such events.

Apraxia-KIDS
This site provides resources and links that strengthen the support systems in the lives of children with apraxia, so that each child has their best opportunity to develop speech.

ArtsConnectEd
Explore the combined collections of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and the Walker Art Center through hundreds of new features in ArtsConnectEd. Search over 100,000 resources in the Art Finder, including works of art, texts, audio, video, and interactive resources. Save and customize items in the redesigned Art Collector. Comment, tag and rate everything!

Carol’s Speech and Language Activities
Carol’s offers online activities that are ready made for using in speech and language sessions. Students can also go online at home to review what they have done in class. This site provides links for Speech/Language Resources, General Education, Special Education, Publishers, and Therapy Ideas.

Center for Media Literacy
A pioneer in its field, the Center for Media Literacy (CML) is an educational organization that provides leadership, public education, professional development and educational resources nationally. Dedicated to promoting and supporting media literacy education as a framework for accessing analyzing, evaluating and creating media content, CML works to help citizen, especially the young, develop critical thinking media production skills needed to live fully in the 21st century media culture.

Centre for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching
The Centre For Innovation in Mathematics Teaching (University of Exeter, England) focuses on research and curriculum development in Mathematics teaching and learning, with the aim of unifying and enhancing mathematical progress in schools and colleges.

Connexions: Sharing Knowledge and Building Communities
Connexions is an environment for collaboratively developing, freely sharing, and rapidly publishing scholarly content on the Web. Our Content Commons contains educational materials for everyone — from children to college students to professionals — organized in small modules that are easily connected into larger collections or courses. All content is free to use and reuse under the Creative Commons “attribution” license.

Council on Exceptional Children
The Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) provides resources dedicated to improving the educational success of individuals with disabilities and/or gifts and talents. CEC advocates for appropriate governmental policies, sets professional standards, provides professional development, advocates for individuals with exceptionalities, and helps professionals obtain conditions and resources necessary for effective professional practice.

Doing What Works
Doing What Works provides information on effective teaching practices and direction in assisting teachers with the practical side of how to implement NCLB concepts and be true to the teaching profession.

Earth Revealed
This series shows the physical processes and human activities that shape our planet. From earthquakes and volcanoes to the creation of sea-floor crusts and shifting river courses, Earth Revealed offers stunning visuals that explain plate tectonics and other geologic concepts and principles. Follow geologists in the field as they explore the primal forces of the Earth. This series can also be used as a resource for teacher professional development.

ENC Online
This site, produced by the Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Mathematics and Science Education, aims to disseminate effective materials and teaching methods in math and science, and to create connections between educators and federal agencies. ENC offers two search options: Resource Finder and Site Search. Resources Finder searches a large database of K-12 curriculum materials, allowing search specifications by subject keyword, targeted grade level, and price restrictions; result show bibliographic details for each resource, with abstract and tables of contents, ordering and evaluation information. Site Search searches various parts of the ENC site: All ENC site; ENC Online; Equity@ENC and TIMSS@ENC.

ERIC: Education Resources Information Center
ERIC - the Education Resources Information Center - is an online digital library of education research and information. ERIC is sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education. ERIC provides ready access to education literature to support the use of educational research and information to improve practice in learning, teaching, educational decision-making, and research.

FREE - Federal Resources for Educational Excellence
FREE makes it easier to find teaching and learning resources from the federal government. More than 1,500 federally supported teaching and learning resources are included from dozens of federal agencies. New sites are added regularly.

The Gateway to 21st Century Skills
This site provides links to thousands of educational resources found on various federal, state, university, non-profit, and commercial Internet sites. You can find information on lesson plans, activities, and projects, and a directory of consortium members. A small part of this site is fee-based.

Genetics Education Center
Organized by the Genetics Education Center of Kansas University Medical Center this site provides you with everything you wanted to know about Genetics and the Human Genome Project.

International Children's Digital Library
The mission of the International Children’s Library Foundation is to prepare children for life in an ethnically and culturally diverse world by building the world’s largest online multicultural repository of children’s literature.

International Reading Association
IRA was founded in 1956 as a professional organization for those involved in teaching reading to learners of all ages. Its members are dedicated to promoting high levels of literacy for all by improving the quality of reading instruction, disseminating research and information about reading and encouraging the lifetime reading habit.

Internet Special Education Resources
Internet Special Education Resources (ISER) provides this information in an effort to help people find local special education professionals and resources.

Khan Academy The Khan Academy is a not-for-profit with the goal of changing education for the better by providing a free world-class education to anyone anywhere.

LD OnLine
LD OnLine is the world’s leading website on learning disabilities and ADHA, serving more than 200,000 parents, teachers, and other professionals each month. LD OnLine seeks to help children and adults reach their full potential by providing accurate and up-to-date information and advice about learning disabilities and ADHA. The site features hundred of helpful articles, multimedia, monthly columns by noted experts, first person essays, children’s writing and artwork, a comprehensive resource guide, very active forums, and a Yellow Pages referral directory of professionals, schools, and products.

Learningscience.org
Learning Science is an organization dedicated to sharing the newer and emerging "learning tools" of science education. Tools such as real-time data collection, simulations, inquiry based lessons, interactive web lessons, micro-worlds, and imaging, among others, can help make teaching science an exciting and engaging endeavor. These tools can help connect students with science, in ways that were impossible just a few years ago. Take a look at a few different types of "learning tools" at this link, Tool Examples. At this point in our project we are highlighting some of the best web resources for science concepts. Although our main emphasis is on students, teachers, and parents, really anyone interested in science education will find the site useful and informative.

New Teachers Home Page
The mission of Inspiring Teachers is to empower beginning teachers and provide strategies to help them not just survive, but thrive in the classroom.

Reading: Harvard View of Readers, Readership, and Reading History
Reading: Harvard Views of Readers, Readership, and Reading History is an online exploration of the intellectual, cultural, and political history of reading as reflected in the historical holdings of the Harvard Libraries. For Internet users worldwide, Reading provides unparalleled digital access to a significant selection of unique source materials.

Teachers
This page provides tools and materials for using the Library of Congress unique collections of primary source documents in the classroom. These teacher-created materials include lesson plans, document analysis tools, online and offline activities, timelines, presentations and professional development resources.

Teaching Tolerance
This site provides free educational materials to teachers and other school practitioners in the U.S. and abroad. Web-exclusive offerings include downloadable curricula, other classroom activities and materials for.

What To Expect Your First Year of Teaching
Teachers who are about to begin their first year will find this site relevant and worthwhile. Some of the sections are: "Tips and Strategies from First-Year Teachers," "How Can Principals and Administrators Help First-Year Teachers?" "The Kids," "What Colleges and Universities Should Know," "Veteran Teachers Talk," and "Final Thoughts and Additional Resources."

Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts
The Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts is a collection of public domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy. Browse for texts by author, title or date.

Bartleby Library: Great Books Online
A great place to start looking for full English-language text resources in the public domain. Searchers can perform author, title, and subject searches for work of fiction, nonfiction, verse and reference.

The Internet Classics Archive
This site provides access to approximately 441 mainly Greco-Roman works, along with some classics originally written in Chinese and Persian, all in English translation.

Luminarium
This full text resource offers electronic versions of medieval, renaissance and 17-century English literature. It also provides supplementary scholarly materials and beautiful layout, complete with images from the manuscripts of the period.

National Academy Press
This site offers the full-text of over 2,500 modern scientific books online in "Open Book" format. The Open Book page image is a free, browseable, nonproprietary, fully searchable version of publications.

On-Line Books Page
This site provides a searchable directory to public domain books freely readable over the Web. Search by author, title, or Library of Congress subject heading.

ORB: The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
The goal of this section to make available online texts that have been written by experienced medievalists and tested in both the classroom and on the Internet. Because medievalists are often assigned to teach courses at both ends of their chronological period, the coverage has been in been in this section to include Western survey courses and the period of Renaissance and Reformation. All texts are subject to the usual copyright restrictions: they may be reproduced for classroom use only.

CIA World Factbook
The online version contains the same information as its print counterpart. The World Factbook includes a great deal of information on geography, demographics, government, and economy of countries, territories and regions of interest. Each country entry contains a basic outline map, and there reference maps for regions and the world. The country profiles are eight pages long when printed.

Environment Contaminants Program
Contaminants specialists review environmental documents, legislation, regulations, and permits and licenses with pollution potential to ensure that harmful effects on fish, wildlife, and plants are avoided or minimized.

EuroDocs
This link connects to Western European (mainly primary) historical documents that are transcribed, reproduced in facsimile, or translated.

Federal Digital Systems (FDsys)
GPO's Federal Digital System (FDsys) provides public access to Government information submitted by Congress and Federal agencies and preserved as technology changes.

FedStats
The Federal Interagency Council on Statistical Policy maintains this site to provide access to a full range of statistics and information produced by more than seventy U.S. federal government agencies.

National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration Educational Resources
Education resources are distributed across many websites and program offices at NOAA and on NOAA partner websites. This portal is designed to assist educators in accessing these materials from one centralized interface. The content here is a sampling of NOAA's education resources and more can be found at each linked location. Materials selected for this site are organized by Themes, topical Collections, and content type that are aligned with common teaching topics and expressed needs of educators. Linked resources are organized into Collections which provide the user with a toolkit of materials and activities suitable for integration into a variety of educational settings. Collections are not grade specific but resources are labeled for grade appropriateness where applicable. Additional NOAA resources which support educator professional development, academic scholarship, career exploration, and education grants are also available. All materials linked from this site are free for use and distribution unless expressly noted.

Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government: Independent Research on America’s State and Local Government
This site analyzes state fiscal conditions, tax policies, fiscal capabilities, and spending trends. In nationwide field research studies they examine whether and how states have implemented major initiatives-and the institutional strengths and weaknesses revealed by such efforts. They also study reforms to improve states’ executive leadership and to recruit and maintain a skilled state and local workforce. In addition, they examine state capacity to contract with private agencies for public functions while holding these agencies accountable, and investigate the institutional capabilities demanded of states as they attempt to reform health care, integrate the delivery of human services, and recover from natural disasters.

Regulations.gov
Regulations.gov is your source for U.S. government regulations and related documents. On this site you can find, read and comment on documents. Share your knowledge and make your voice count.

SciTech Connect
Produced by The Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), SciTech is a portal which has free DOE research and development (R&D) results available to the public. SciTech contains all the full-text documents and citations previously found in Information Bridge and Energy Citations Database. There are over 2.5 million citations, including citations to 1.4 million journal articles, 364,000 of which have digital object identifiers (DOIs) linking to full-text articles on publishers’ websites. SciTech Connect also has over 313,000 full-text DOE sponsored STI reports; most of these are post-1991, but close to 85,000 of the reports were published prior to 1990. This data includes technical reports, bibliographic citations, journal articles, conference papers, books, multimedia, and data information.

United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Statistical Database
This database is maintained by the Statistical Division of the UNECE Secretariat. It provides free access to data structured to facilitate easy retrieval of statistics by users. It is organized by subject or policy areas. Multi-dimensional tables’ present data by country, by various socio-economic classifications related to the context, and by time period. Data is presented under three subject areas: Macroeconomic Statistics. Gender Statistics, Transport Statistics, Forestry Statistics.

United States Courts
This site is one of the primary sources of information regarding the structure, function, and operations of the federal court system.

U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics
Employment, Hours and Earnings for the Current Employment Statistics Survey (national). The Current Employment Statistics (CES) survey of payroll records covers over 300,000 businesses on a monthly basis and provides detailed industry data on employment, hours, and earnings of workers on non-farm payrolls for the nation.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
This site features relevant, current information and provides the public with quick access to many popular environmental subjects. Tabs at the top allow users to navigate through the EPA’s abundant and complex information from a news, scientific, and legal perspective.

USA.gov
This site is intended to be one-stop shopping for all digital government information. It provides gateways for citizens, business and government employees. Users also have access to directories of federal forms, laws and regulations, and telephone numbers.

USA Spending.gov
USAspending.gov, a re-launch of www.fedspending.org, provides this information on Federal awards to the public, as collected from federal agencies, in an easy to use website. The data is largely from sources: the Federal Procurement Data System, which contains information about federal contracts; and the Federal Assistance Award Data System, which contains information about federal financial assistance such as grants, loans, insurance, and direct subsidies like Social Security.

Your Food Environment Atlas
Food environment factors—such as store/restaurant proximity, food prices, food and nutrition assistance programs, and community characteristics—interact to influence food choices and diet quality. Research is beginning to document the complexity of these interactions, but more is needed to identify causal relationships and effective policy interventions. The objectives of the Atlas are: To assemble statistics on food environment indicators to stimulate research on the determinants of food choices and diet quality and to provide a spatial overview of a community’s ability to access healthy food and its success in doing so.

Citing Sources, Guide to Library Research
Citing Sources provides a quick and comparative look at works-cited formats for APA, Chicago Style, MLA, and Turabian. Types of materials- Journal articles, books, primary sources — are grouped with links to examples for each style. A search box with a drop-down menu allows searching the type of materials to be cited.

The Nuts and Bolts of College Writing
Created by Michael Harvey this site provides reliable treatment of the major components of college writing. Divided into sections on thinking, style, structure, evidence, documentation, and mechanics, the site presents material in a clear and accessible manner. The site also offers a glossary of writing terms, a full-text search capability, advice to instructors, and links to several good, related resources.

Online Writing Lab, Purdue University
The Purdue site offers online materials, links, and services designed to help writers, writing teachers, and undergraduate researchers. From self-instructional materials in basic skills to pedagogical resources for teachers of writing across the curriculum, the OWL contains valuable information for anyone involved in writing.

Research and Documentation
With the focus on the general writing audience, this site supplies various citation styles (MLA, APA, Chicago, CBE, and others) with examples and links to other online citation guides, principally those that offer guidance with regard to Internet sources.

Sources
Sources have been designed for undergraduate students. It is an excellent online manual for students who need guidance about correct citation style.

Writing Center Handouts
This Web site offers users as in-depth look at both the elements and challenges of academic writing. The site addresses common errors, stages of the writing process, and even the forms and conventions of specific disciplines.

Allied Health Evidence
These databases provide the citation details, and where possible, the abstract and link to the full text of research about treatments relevant to Physiotherapy (PEDro), Occupational Therapy (OTSeeker), and Speech Pathology (speechBITE). PsycBITE contains research about cognitive, behavioral and other treatments for psychological problems and issues occurring as a consequence of acquired brain impairment (ABI). In addition, each database provides critical appraisal details for many of the studies that are indexed.

The American Academy of Physical Therapy (AAPT)
The American Academy of Physical therapy (AAPT) was formally established in 1989 for the purpose of addressing the many unmet professional concerns of the African American Physical therapy Community.

American Association of the History of Nursing, Inc.
The American Association for the History of Nursing (AAHN) is a professional organization open to everyone interested in the history of nursing. The purpose of the Association shall be to foster the importance of history as relevant to understanding the past, defining the present, and influencing the future of nursing by:

1. Stimulating national and international interest and collaboration in the history of nursing.
2. Educating nurses and the public regarding the history and heritage of the nursing profession.
3. Serving as a resource for information about nursing history.
4. Producing and distributing educational materials related to the history and heritage of the nursing profession.
5. Promoting the inclusion of nursing history in nursing curricula.
6. Fostering interdisciplinary collaboration in history.

American College of Sports Medicine
The American College of Sports Medicine promotes and integrates scientific research, education, and practical applications of sports medicine and exercise science to maintain and enhance physical performance, fitness, health, and quality of life.

American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine
The American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine (ACRM) is dedicated to serving the needs of people with disabling conditions by providing research that: promotes health, independence, productivity, and quality of life. Its mission is to enhance the lives of people living with disabilities through a multidisciplinary approach to rehabilitation. As leaders in the physical medicine and rehabilitation field, we promote innovative research, new technologies, and sharing information, encourages evidence-based practices in clinical settings, educates providers to deliver best practices, and ensures future research projects are publicly funded.

American Medical Rehabilitation Providers Association
AMRPA provides its members with the knowledge and tools to successfully navigate the challenges facing medical rehabilitation providers and adapt to the changing federal regulatory environment. AMRPA is the nation’s only trade organization dedicated solely to the interests of Inpatient Rehabilitation Hospitals and Units (IRH/U), outpatient rehabilitation centers, and other medical rehabilitation providers. Their focus is on collective advocacy – working together to advance the field of medical rehabilitation and support the medical rehabilitation needs of persons with disabilities.

American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC)
The American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) provides individuals and organizations throughout the nursing profession with the tools they need on their journey to excellence. ANCC’s internationally renowned credentialing programs certify nurses in specialty practice areas, recognize healthcare organizations for nursing excellence through the Magnet Recognition Program®, and accredit provides of continuing nursing education. In addition, ANCC offers an array of informational and educational services and products to support its core credentialing programs.

The American Occupational Therapy Association
The American Occupational Therapy Association advances the quality, availability, use, and support of occupational therapy through standard-setting, advocacy, education, and research on behalf of its members and the public. AOTA provides tools and resources for practice, education, and research; customized membership in 11 Special Interest Sections; legislative advocacy on your behalf; continuing education opportunities for licensure renewal; professional certification and credentials; networking forums and groups on OT Connections; career advancement through OTjobLink; participation in COOL leadership opportunities, and more.

CATS: Occupational Therapy Critically Appraised Topics
A critically appraised topic (or CAT) is a short summary of evidence on a topic of interest, usually focused around a clinical question. A CAT is like a shorter and less rigorous version of a systematic review, summarizing the best available research evidence on a topic. Usually more than one study is included in a CAT. When professionals’ summaries a single study, the outcome is a critically appraised paper (or CAP). CATs and CAPs are one way for busy clinicians to collate and share their appraisals.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
This CDC site provides information for public health and safety. It included fact sheets, information and CDC journals articles on diseases and chronic conditions, and statistics from the National Center for Health Statistics. The full text of several CDC publications, including Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports and Emerging Infectious Diseases is also available.

CDC Wonder
CDC WONDER -- Wide-ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research – is an easy-to-use, menu-driven system that makes the information resources of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) available to public health professionals and the public at large. It provides access to a wide array of public health information.

Children’s Special Services Children’s Special Services, LLC is a comprehensive therapy service for children from toddler through teen. CSS uses interactive therapeutic learning experiences that encompass both psychological and physiological development issues. By assessing and treating visual motor, coordination, visual processing, and organizational skills, school and life skills improve. Handwriting deficits are just one specialization. CSS works with both the family and the child.

CIRRIE (Center for International Rehabilitation Research Information and Exchange)
The mission of the Center for International Rehabilitation Research Information and Exchange (CIRRIE) is to facilitate the sharing of information between rehabilitation researchers in the U.S. and those in other countries. CIRRIE makes available to the disability community in the U.S. knowledge that has been found useful in other countries. It does this through a number of resources that are found on this website. Primary among them is the CIRRIE Database of International Research, which contains citations, abstracts, and in many cases, links to the full text of articles that report research conducted in countries other than the U.S.

The Connecticut Occupational Therapy Association
Welcome to the Connecticut Occupational Therapy Association. ConnOTA is a non-profit volunteer organization that provides a professional community for its members. The resources contained in this site will outline membership benefits, continuing education opportunities, and serve as a resource for promoting the profession in the State of Connecticut.

Contagion: Historical Views of Diseases and Epidemics Contagion Historical Views of Diseases and Epidemics is a digital library collection that brings a unique set of resources from Harvard’s libraries to Internet users everywhere. Offering valuable insights to students of the history of medicine and to researchers seeking an historical context for current epidemiology, the collection contributes to the understanding of the global, social–history, and public–policy implications of disease. Contagion is also a unique social–history resource for students of many ages and disciplines.

The Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care
For more than 20 years, the Dartmouth Atlas Project has documented glaring variations in how medical resources are distributed and used in the United States. The project uses Medicare data to provide comprehensive information and analysis about national, regional, and local markets, as well as individual hospitals and their affiliated physicians. This website provides access to all Atlas reports and publications, as well as interactive tools to allow visitors to view specific regions and perform their own comparisons and analyses.

Drug Digest
Drug Digest is a noncommercial, evidence-based, consumer health and drug information site dedicated to empowering consumers to make informed choices about drugs and treatment options.

The Eastern Athletic Trainers' Association
The Eastern Athletic Trainers' Association was first formed in January 1949. It seeks the advancement, encouragement, and improvement of the athletic training profession in all of its aspects. The Association will encourage improved working relationships among all persons interested in, and working with, the problems that are inherent in the care for the health and well being of the physically active individual. The Association shall encourage the continued professional development of each of its members. The Association shall also serve the common interest of its members by providing a means of free exchange of ideas within the profession.

Environmental Health News The mission of Environmental Health News is to advance the public’s understanding of environmental health issues by publishing its own journalism and providing access to worldwide news about a variety of subjects related to the environment and health of humans, wildlife and ecosystems.

The eSkeletons Project The eSkeletons Project website is devoted to the study of humans and primate comparative anatomy. It offers unique set of digitized versions of skeletons in 2-D and 3-D in full color, animation, and much supplemental information. The user can navigate through the various regions of the skeleton and view orientations of each element along with muscle and joint information.

Free Medical Journals This site provides links to approximately 4,000 medical journals that are on the Internet in full text for free.

Genes and Disease Genes and Disease is a collection of articles that discuss genes and the diseases that they cause. These genetic disorders are organized by the parts of the body that they affect. As some diseases affect various body systems, they appear in more than one chapter.

Globalhealthfacts.org Globalhealthfacts.org, a project of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation provides free, up-to-date and easy-to-access data by country on HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and other key health and socio-economic indicators. The data is displayed in tables, charts, and other color-coded maps and can be downloaded for custom analyses.

Global Library of Women’s Medicine The primary feature of this site consists of 442 specialist chapters on women’s medicine, plus 53 supplementary chapters, authored by over 650 expert contributors citing more than 40,000 references.

Health & Environmental Research Online (HERO) The Health and Environmental Research Online (HERO) database provides an easy way to view the scientific literature behind EPA science assessments. The database includes more than 300,000 scientific articles from the peer-reviewed literature used by EPA to develop its Integrated Science Assessments (ISA) that feed into the NAAQS review. It also includes references and data from the Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS), a database that supports critical agency policymaking for chemical regulation. Risk assessments characterize the nature and magnitude of health risks to humans and the ecosystem from pollutants and chemicals in the environment.

Health Policy Picks Health Policy Picks is a monthly selection of recent publications, such as technical reports, conference proceedings, and other material produced by organizations and government agencies that conduct health care policy analysis and research. Health Policy Picks is a partnership between KaiserEDU.org and the New York Academy of Medicine Library's Grey Literature Collection.

History of Vaccines The History of Vaccines explores the role of immunization in the human experience and examines its continuing contributions to public health.

H1N1 (Influenza) Searchable Information Center This site was created by ebrary employees, who in the course of researching H1N1 to protect families and friends, realized that their technology can help. While some of the most important information in the world is contained within PDF documents, it is a very difficult format to search, use, and manage online. To enable people to discover valuable H1N1 data, they have created a highly interactive database of PDF documents from government agencies and other authoritative sites (copyrights permitting or with permission).

International Center for Alcohol Policies ICAP is a not-for-profit organization, supported by major producers of beverage alcohol. It is a resource for all those interested in alcohol policy worldwide. ICAP promotes dialogue involving the drinks industry, the research and public health communities, government, and civil society, encouraging them to work together.

Lab Tests Online A collaboration of professional societies representing the lab community brings you this site. Search for up-to-date lab test information by disease, test name, or screening population groups.

LUMEN: Structure of the Human Body The publicly accessible part of this site provides significant resources for human anatomy students to review structural nomenclature and relationships using multimedia visual aids. The Tutorial includes "stand-alone lessons": cross-sectional anatomy, a master site muscle list, and practice exams, study aids, etc.

MEDLINEplus Health Information The National Library of Medicine provides this site for the general health consumer. They can find information on conditions, diseases, drugs, and wellness. Also provides a medical dictionary. You can also go directly from this site to the ClinicalTrials.gov (http://ClinicalTrials.gov), the medical research program from the National Institute of Health.